SUPERGEN Energy Storage Hub

今天的能源储存比人类历史上任何时候都重要。它在储存可再生能源（风能、波浪能、太阳能）的电力方面发挥着至关重要的作用，是交通电气化的关键。然而，目前的储能技术并不适合这一目的。没有单一的储能技术可以满足所有应用的需求，但许多提高性能和降低成本的研究挑战在电化学，机械和热设备中是共同的：需要开发和测试新材料，热力学过程必须优化，基于实验室的原型必须适合放大。这些技术必须整合到强大且具有成本效益的系统中。为了应对这种情况，特别是在英国的背景下，我们建议建立一个超级发电储能中心。该联盟将汇集在储能研究方面具有良好国际和国内声誉的研究人员，并跨越整个价值链，从储能技术本身，到制造，集成和评估整个储能系统。该联盟将解决在英国和其他地方实现储能商业化及其广泛利用所面临的一些关键障碍。该联盟的成员涵盖了英国既有科学能力又有能源系统需求的领域。这些活动将包括能源政策，以及英国能源存储研究的路线图和愿景，从而为英国能源存储制定议程。通过广泛的网络，包括与行业，非政府组织和政府的所有利益相关者的密切合作，该中心不仅将保持知情，并向其他人通报储能的最新发展，还将使英国的储能社区作为一个整体更加紧密地联系在一起，并通过广泛的传播吸引公众。通过该中心的力量及其链接，将为商业产品中的新研究和新想法的开发提供更有效的途径。

Energy storage is more important today than at any time in human history. It has a vital role to play in storing electricity from renewable sources (wind, wave, solar) and is key to the electrification of transport. However, current energy storage technologies are not fit for purpose. No single energy storage technology can meet the needs of all applications, but many of the research challenges to improve performance and reduce costs are common across electrochemical, mechanical and thermal devices: new materials need to be developed and tested, thermodynamic processes have to be optimized, and lab-based prototypes must be suitable for scale-up. These technologies have to be integrated into robust and cost effective systems. In response to the situation, especially within the UK context, we propose to establish a SUPERGEN Energy Storage Hub. The consortium will bring together investigators with strong international and national reputations in energy storage research and spanning the entire value chain from the energy storage technologies themselves, through manufacturing, integration, and evaluation of the whole system in which the energy storage would be embedded. The consortium will address a number of the critical barriers that face progress towards the commercialisation of energy storage and its widespread exploitation in the UK and elsewhere. Members of the consortium cover areas in which the UK has both the scientific capability and an energy system need. The activities will embrace energy policy, as well as a roadmap and a vision for energy storage research in the UK stretching into the future, thus setting the agenda for UK energy storage. Through extensive networking, including strong engagement with all stakeholders in industry, NGOs and government the hub will not only remain informed and inform others about the latest developments in energy storage it will also bring the energy storage community in the UK as a whole closer together and through wide dissemination engage the public. Through the strength of the Hub and its links will come more effective pathways for the exploitation of new research and new ideas in commercial products.